Ive interviewed biologists
And folks on farming mailing lists,
And zookeepers, and breeders of all metazoan life.
But none of them have given me the answer that I beg: Which came firstthe chicken, or the egg?

I know how foxes get their wives
Know why they mate by twos, not fives And similar for almost every creature on the Earth.But still I cannot say (although my knowledge-base is vast!)
Of the egg and chicken, which came last?

Ive plumbed the mysteries of birth
And yet, for all this datas worth,
I might as well have never bothered with one bit of it.
Ive yet to learn the answer to the query thats my curse: The chicken or the eggwhich one came first?

Id like to get above it
Or else, failing that, just shove it
But the mystery will haunt me for as long as I exist.
Unless I someday learn which of this duo was first quickened:
Was it the egg? Or else was it the chicken?